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re you part of the growing number of people who experience feelings of extreme anxiety? Are your emotions getting the best of you? Are you overwhelmed by simple tasks that are too stressful to tackle? Are you in pain emotionally? You are not alone. Art Therapy can be used as an activity by individuals who face these daily traumatic emotions. Artistic ability is not required for one to benefit from Art Therapy. Anyone can do it. If you
have a pencil, a pen, a crayon, a marker, some clay, fabric, tissues, felt, flowers, pebbles, sea shells, pasta, newspaper, etc. Anything goes. Remember when you were a child? Things were simple. You could take a blank piece of paper and whatever you did was praised, “the art of a child.” All parents are proud of their children's art. As you become an adult, you possess the very same qualities and abilities that you had as that child. People
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room. No more cooking with just two burners for 200 people. (We now have over eight burners and a few ovens with a big walk in cooler.) That’s not all we have… a deep fryer as well as a real nice big pizza oven and grill. It does not stop there; we have a dining room named after the living Arnold Abbott who is a National Homeless Advocate who fought the city of Fort Lauderdale to have his God
t’s been two and a half years since we moved in here at 1203 N. Federal Highway. Some of you remember where we moved from but for those who don’t, we used to live in a virtual “rat’s nest.” We were so enthused and happy about moving here...we would have the best shelter in the country. We had carpeting on the floor. Each room had its new bunk beds, sofa and TV with VCR. We now had a real kitchen and dining
ELYAHOU LALLOUZ ORIGINAL “Mother Teresa” -After Hussein30” x 36” Mixed Media on Canvas Value: 14K
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ONE RECOVERING ADDICTS NEW OUTLOOK ON LIFE
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s I sat on the beach watching my seven year old son play in the waves and chase the seagulls I realized for the
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first time in years I was actually those stereotypes are wrong and happy. need to be brought to light. I used This may not seem unusual to be one of to your average “I started to take life t h o s e that thought “How American, but you for granted and the could you end would have to understand where I blessings the Lord had up on the have been and streets? You bestowed upon me.” what it has taken must just be lazy for me to get to or really adthis point. You see by the majority dicted to drugs”. of the public I am considered You see what I have homeless and less than. Why? learned in the last four months that Because I live in a homeless shel- I have lived at this shelter is that ter and am no longer considered anyone can end up homeless. Not productive or part of society. just addicts and mentally ill peoI’m here to tell you that ple. I have seen people from all
walks of life come through the front doors and no one is turned away. And the amazing thing is that this shelter accepts no government grants. I didn’t believe it at first but for the last three months I have become a staff member supervising building maintenance and I know first hand that it is true. We (Continued on page 5)